Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious young man, he had worked his way up from male stenography via International Correspondence Schools to head a firm of his own. His Business Promotion Corp. had 14 employes, some fairly profitable accounts with Chrysler and other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...since 1830, before Michigan became a State, had anyone been executed in Michigan.† Governor Frank Murphy thought trying to preserve that tradition would be a popular gesture. With Killer Chebatoris scheduled to hang at the Federal Detention Farm in Milan, Mich, last week. Governor Murphy appealed to President Roosevelt to have Chebatoris hanged in some other State...
Franklin Roosevelt asked his Department of Justice to see what could be done to accommodate gentle, faithful Frank Murphy. Federal law says that Federal executions shall be moved only out of States which have entirely abolished capital punishment. Michigan law does demand death for "high treason." The Chebatoris hanging could not be moved unless the trial judge knew of a way. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle of Detroit replied: "I have neither the power nor the inclination. ... I think it would be unfair to suggest that people of neighboring States are less humane than are the people...
...Executioner Phil Hanna of Illinois went to Milan. There last week, still sneering, Killer Chebatoris took the plunge that broke his neck. Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...